Pictures of the Week

Policemen arrest an activist of the women's movement Femen during their topless protest at a mosque in Kiev on April 4, 2013. The Sextremists called for a day of international "topless jihad" on April 4 in support of Amina, a young Tunisian woman who published photos of herself bare-chested on the internet.

A man kicks a topless activist of the Ukrainian feminist movement Femen as she raises her fist to protest against Islamists in front of the Great Mosque of Paris on April 3, 2013 in Paris.

An Indian protester self immolates at the Rajkot Municipal Corporation premises in Rajkot, some 210 kms from Ahmedabad on April 3, 2013. Five people set themselves on fire in western India, leaving one dead as they protested official plans to raze their home in a drive to remove illegal structures, police said.

A boy is carried in a polystyrene box as thousands of city slum dwellers take an Easter Sunday dip on the polluted Manila Bay to beat the scorching heat on March 31, 2013. The city government bars swimming in the bay due to health hazards, but authorities are often helpless in implementing the ordinance.

An elderly woman looks at a cokerel in Beijing on April 4,2013. A man in the Chinese province of Zhejiang has died of the H7N9 strain of bird flu, state media said on March 3, bringing the total deaths attributed to the virus to three since the first human cases.

An armed policeman stands alert near Argentinian Arsenal players (in background) after their football match against Atletico Mineiro for the Libertadores Cup 2013 at Independencia Arena in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state on April 3, 2013.

Horse 'Bold Addition' ridden by Steven Clements (C) falls at Beechers Brook during the Fox Hunters Steeple Chase on the opening day of the Grand National Meeting horse racing event at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, north-west England on April 4 2013.

Undertakers arrive to remove three executed men just west of the capital Kuwait City on April 1,2013. Authorities in Kuwait hanged three convicted murderers, a Pakistani, a Saudi and a stateless Arab, in the first executions in the Gulf state since May 2007.

A man takes a picture of a burning skyscraper in central Grozny on April 3, 2013. A fire raged in a skyscraper in the Chechnya capital Grozny on Wednesday, a building which is a centrepiece of a drive by local authorities to promote the city as a glitzy and modern hub.The buildng is uninhabited.

<p>A man paddles on a surfboard after heavy rains lashed Buenos Aires on April 2, 2013. A violent storm with torrential rain and powerful wind left five people dead Tuesday in Buenos Aires as it knocked out power, downed trees and damaged homes.</p>

Students wings of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam beat a police officer in the northwestern city of Rajshahi, about 260 kms from the capital Dhaka, on April 1, 2013.

A soldier evacuates an elderly woman in a flooded street in La Plata, 63 kms southeast of Buenos Aires on April 3, 2013. At least 25 people died in flooding in the Argentine city of La Plata as torrential rains fell, according to the regional governor.

Young Slovak men dressed in traditional costumes pour a bucket with cold water over a woman as part of Easter celebrations in the village of Trencianska Tepla, 145 km north of Bratislava on April 1, 2013. Slovakia's men traditionally splash women with water and hit them with a willow to evoke youth, strength and beauty for the upcoming spring season.

Palestinian boys play in an old tree east of Gaza City, near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on April 3, 2013.

Wearing a costume of polar bear a Greenpeace activist takes part in a staged show on the Moskva River in front of the Kremlin in Moscow on April 1, 2013. According to Greenpeace the staged show was aimed to draw attention to the threats of the catastrophic climate consequences of Arctic oil drilling.